MIDN E.F. Cunningham, RAN was drowned when the submarine HMS K17, in which he was serving, was rammed and sunk by a British warship in the North Sea. Cunningham was a member of the original 1913 entry to the RAN College and the first graduate to lose his life on active service.
Australian Naval History on 31 January 1918
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